This is our 12th cruise, we thought we are seasoned cruises and later found out many on this world cruise are way more experienced…. Makes sense since it’s hard to attempt world cruise unless you already have quite a few and kind of used to ship life……but we heard there’s a passenger on board already completed 12 world cruises and this is the 13th…. πππππππππππππ
Princess cruises’s Enrichment classes is one of the major reason we pick them…
Almost every cruises we were on, there are multiple charismatic speakers that knew their subjects well and spoke with such enthusiasm that they have a cult like following onboard with packed venue…. This section of the cruise we have Fred Cink the astrology guy that takes us on a cruise through the galaxy (see example pics of his presentation)… And what an eye opening trip π€©

On our prior cruises.. Theres Robert the Naturalist, Joe the Antarctica historian, Gary the route 66 expert..
Final thoughts on Honolulu…
By the end of the day P logged 33325 steps and R logged 25000 steps οΌmore steps for P because he went out at night, see pics below ) … Hope we used up all the fat that we accumulated in the last 5 sea days… This is the second time in 6 months via cruise that we stopped in Honolulu… 1st time we joined an excursion tour group and were bused around the island… Did a little of everything including snorkeling… This second time around we were mainly on foot and more tuned in with the local scenery and understand the fabric of the culture…





Also we noticed birds here are not afraid of humans.. Heres a bird waiting patiently for a man to catch something…


Sampling of Local delicacies and flowers in honolulu








…..Musubi (famous Hawaiian snack with spam)
Hiking Diamond Head crater trail and Strolling Waikiki Beach
Bus ride plus Uber plus one hour hike and we reached the top of Diamond Head crater….











Someone told us best thing to eat in Honolulu is Japanese food and it’s true… Freshest chirashi and tuna steak π




Happy hour at Waikiki Beach






Day 7, 1/24/24 Arriving Honolulu before dawn….




Dreams and Drinks
On dreams… not sure why but almost nightly now we plunge into deep sleep with abundant vivid dreams.. Is it the mattress or the gentle rocking motion of the ship?
On drinks… We called our blog site happy hours Ahoy because we thought we are going to drink every afternoon like we used to. Turns out we don’t feel the need to do this daily anymore…. Maybe every couple of days…. Heres one with delicacy P brought π… Yes, with all the abundant food selections on the ship, we are delighted with this classic Taiwanese snack..

Day 6, 1/23/24 Pink clouds and glorious cloud formation at dawn



What a 90 year old passenger told us why he is doing this world cruise…
…. I want to see this world before I go to the next..
Day 5, 1/22/24 Here comes the Sun….
…. That is the topic of today’s enrichment class taught by the fabulous Fred Cink… Learned so many cool facts about the sun and coincidentally the Sun is out after hiding for 3 days… and calmer sea too !

